Report: China tops expanding global smart grid market

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance study concludes that global smart grid investment set a new record in 2013, edging up to $14.9bn

China was this week named as the world's leading market for smart grid technologies for the first time, after overtaking the US as the biggest investor in smart grid deployment. Analyst firm Bloomberg...

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